Name/Title
AU Lambert, Daniel Webster - 1915-02-08 letter to the Lambert Family CircleEntry/Object ID
1990.1.473Context
Westerville Ohio Feb 8 1915
Dear circulating letter, how you are a custom just tumbling and yet with anxious hearts we open you. Anxious to hear each one speak with news from the [...] and the sea. Expecting beautiful words of greeting and yet sometimes of disease and death. What a faithful message you have been. You have gone o’r prairies wide and oft you’ve crossed the deep blue sea, bringing precious news to me. What a comfort, separated as we are, that we can thus commune together. I hardly know how we could do without you. What a treat to sit down and read of each in your various homes. What anxiety we feel for the welfare of each as we grow older in years. I am in my 79th year. I think much about life. It is largely what we make it. I want the best life I can have. I have been thinking much about the long lives of ancestry before me, good and noble people. Then I think of our many descendants. What anxiety I have for welfare in life, and see much to encourage me as I look at the children and grandchildren. Alva requested me to give a record of ancestors. I have given from great grandfather Lambert and great great grandfather Stanton and also mother’s mother’s side I will s[ in the letter and each can copy it if you desire to do so.
We have both fair health. We appreciate your letters so much and it’s such company to read your letters. The broken links in the letter remind me that we are traveling to another land, in the hope of a reunion on the other shore. Our prayer daily is that God may direct the footsteps of each.
The record I have given of our ancestors I believe every family can cherish. People, may all the descendants follow in the same channel until we shall be one great family in heaven.
D. W. Lambert
